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Species Clathria (Dendrocia) pyramida Lendenfeld, 1888

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia


Extra Distribution Information

Port Jackson, Maria Is., Sorrento Jetty and Oyster Harbour; also Spencer Gulf SA

Australian Endemic.


IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Ecological Descriptors

Filter-feeder, marine, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Depth 0–25 m; on sand, rock reef or muddy substrates, associated with oysters and algal beds, Spongylus, Pinna and Chalamus bivalves, rock or wood jetty substrates.

 

General References

Capon, R.J. & MacLeod, J.K. 1987. 5-thio-D-mannose from the marine sponge Clathria pyramida (Lendenfeld). The first example of a naturally occurring 5-thiosugar. Journal of the Chemical Society, Chemical Communications 1987: 1200-1201 [1200]

Chernoff, H. 1987. Factors affecting mortality of the scallop Chlamys asperrima (Lamarck) and its epizooic sponges in South Australian waters. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 109(2): 155-172 [160]

Davis, A.R. & Ward, D.W. 1999. Does the large barnacle Austrobalanus imperator (Darwin, 1854) structure benthic invertebrate communities in SE Australia? Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 125-130 [127] (Mentioned in this article)

Fromont, J. 1999. Demosponges of the Houtman Abrolhos. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 44: 175-184 [180] (Listed in this article)

Hooper, J.N.A. 1996. Revision of Microcionidae (Porifera: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae), with description of Australian species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 40: 1-626 [Date published 01/06/1996] [242]

Hooper, J.N.A., Capon, R.J., Keenan, C.P., Parry, D.L. & Smit, N. 1992. Chemotaxonomy of marine sponges: families Microcionidae, Raspailiidae and Axinellidae, and their relationships with other families in the orders Poecilosclerida and Axinellida (Porifera: Demospongiae). Invertebrate Taxonomy 6(2): 261-301 [263]

Sorokin, S., Fromont, J. & Currie, D. 2007. Demosponge biodiversity in the Benthic Protection Zone of the Great Australian Bight. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 132(2): 192-204 [195]

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018 15-Dec-2011 MOVED
29-Mar-2018 02-May-2011 MODIFIED
12-Feb-2010 (import)